If I add "-Djava.security.manager=default" to the command line, then the it appears the policy file work, however I also get an oracle driver deployment failure (java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError exception). This NoClassDefFoundException (Could not initialize class oracle.jdbc.driver.ClassRef) only occurs when the above two properties are set through the command line. Without the properties added, the oracle driver by itself will deploy fine. So, it must be caused by the security manager properties.